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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and though

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought – two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate

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People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. – Eldridge Cleaver

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The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. – Pat Robertson

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